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Election Day Outside Of Big Cities Is Different. For One Thing, There Are So Few People In My Town That Each Individual Vote Really Does Matter, And Several Local Races Have Been Decided By As Many Votes As You Can Count On One Hand.

You Could Go Crazy Thinking Of How Unprivate Our Lives Really Are - The Omnipresent Security Cameras, The Tracking Data On Our Very Smart Phones, The Porous State Of Our Internet Selves, The Trail Of Electronic Crumbs We Leave Every Day.

Animals Can Seem More Pure. Without Complication, I Mean, Animals Are Selfless. What Animals Do For Us, They Do Out Of Instinct.

The First Thing I Think About When I Wake Up Most Mornings Is The Fact That I'm Tired. I Have Been Tired For Decades. I Am Tired In The Morning And I Am Tired While Becalmed In The Slough Of The Afternoon, And I Am Tired In The Evening, Except Right When I Try To Go To Sleep.

Parents, It Seems, Have An Almost Olympian Persistence When It Comes To Suggesting More Secure And Lucrative Lines Of Work For Their Children Who Have The Notion That Writing Is An Actual Profession. I Say This From Experience.